Meet someof our leaders

When this course came, it just came at a time when I was ready to take back my life and be in charge of it again because prior to that I was just drifting along. I take from this leadership skills. I think I had attributes that would make me a good leader in my community, I belong to a particular ethnic group so I think I can do a lot of valuable work there. I actually fought with the council after doing a few sessions of this course. I wrote them such a powerful letter that the person representing me, I’ve paid him for nothing, actually said to me ‘in 50 years in this field I’ve never seen the council give in to anybody!’ I think it’d just the power of words. I think that’s what I learnt, to put it down in writing and to be really passionate about the things you believe in, and that is one of the things I’ll be taking away from here. I look at people with a different view. The diversity in the group and what everybody is living with, but every day that we show up everybody has a smile, everyone is so friendly, and you wouldn’t even know that we’re all living with whtever that we’re living with. And I don’t think one person’s situation is better than the others, but we all make do with what we’ve got and to me, I think that’s the biggest thing that I’ve learnt.

Thanks to the leadership course we’ve also learned about the valuable skills we need to improve our own lives. Working together as a team which can often be the hardest thing with being a leader. I am often involved in CID and other organisations where I have to speak up and it’s not easy. Like on Wednesday I was offered a transport job because they were so impressed with what I said and they said I was one of the most knowledgeable and experienced people. Often you have to not only put your skills together but your differences and that’s the hard thing. Sometimes people have different opinions about things and sometimes it doesn’t always work out but I found out through this leadership course that the differences are just going deeper. And we’ve been able to work over those differences to work together as a team and achieve success in every project we’ve done.